Practice areas
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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Powell Gilbert LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 18 Dec 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 1362 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A broad prior disclosure of a chemical class does not anticipate a later claim to one member unless it gives an individualised description of that member.…
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| 20 Jan 2021 |
[2021] EWHC 57 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For obviousness, the skilled person may differ from the addressee of the patent. The court should identify the problem, locate it within the established field…
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19 |
| 1 Apr 2009 |
[2009] EWCA Civ 252 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A pharmaceutical patent claim expressed as “comprising” specified elements may cover a product containing an additional feature, provided every claimed element…
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19 |
| 2 Nov 2011 |
[2011] UKSC 51 · Supreme Court
A patent for a newly identified protein and its encoding gene satisfies industrial applicability where the specification, read with common general knowledge…
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17 |
| 19 Jul 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 741 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Standard disclosure in a patent action involving obviousness must be determined under the ordinary Civil Procedure Rules. There is no presumptive rule…
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17 |
| 16 Dec 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 3070 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In construing a patent claim, the court asks what the skilled person would understand the patentee to mean from the claim language read in context. A claim to…
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17 |
| 23 Oct 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 2344 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A standard-essential patent owner’s undertaking to license on FRAND terms may, depending on the portfolio, the implementer’s business and industry practice, be…
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14 |
| 31 Jul 2008 |
[2008] EWHC 1903 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Industrial applicability requires more than identifying and reproducing a biological sequence. The patent must disclose, directly or through the common general…
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13 |
| 30 Nov 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 2988 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
An ETSI undertaking to license standards-essential patents on FRAND terms is legally enforceable by implementers. For a given set of circumstances, there is…
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13 |
| 26 Mar 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 440 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A claim for a declaration of FRAND licensing terms must be founded on an asserted legal right or other legal standard. The court’s inherent power to grant…
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12 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 28 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2235 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent claim for a wireless-communications system is not obvious merely because each step in a proposed development could be taken. The court must ask…
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| 31 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1994 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In patent litigation, managing confidential technical information requires a balance between the receiving party’s access to relevant material and protection…
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| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 999 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In determining FRAND terms for a global SEP cross-licence, the court should begin with the most comparable licence available. A licence to the same portfolio…
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| 12 Mar 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 553 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A dependent plant variety must satisfy all cumulative requirements in section 7(3) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997. The derived variety must be predominantly…
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| 24 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 136 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a patent appeal, obviousness is a multi-factorial assessment and appellate intervention is confined to an error of law or principle. The appellate court…
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| 6 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2896 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
On a pleading issue, a party cannot advance at trial a case that two varieties are factually distinct where the pleadings and agreed facts treat them as the…
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| 31 Oct 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1383 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A standard-essential patent owner does not act in bad faith merely by using properly available infringement proceedings to press for determination of fair…
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| 16 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2406 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Where an interim injunction is granted to preserve the position pending trial, success at the interim stage is provisional and costs may properly be reserved.…
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| 1 Sep 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2203 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Costs are determined by identifying the overall winner, isolating any distinct issue on which that party lost, and deciding whether justice requires a further…
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| 1 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1032 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For novelty, a prior disclosure must clearly and unambiguously disclose subject-matter which, if performed, would necessarily fall within the claim. A list and…
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| 21 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 924 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For an interim injunction pending a further appeal, the court must first ask whether the proposed appeal has a real prospect of success. If it does, the court…
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| 16 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 903 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Plausibility is not a freestanding validity requirement. It is the standard used to assess whether a patent makes a claimed technical effect sufficiently…
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